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'What's beyond despair?'
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'What's beyond despair?'
The UK's economy is about the same size as France's; a little smaller than Germany's. It's hard to directly compare taxes but levels across business and personal taxation are pretty much in the same ballpark.
If you go to either of those countries, public services work, the education systems aren't in permanent crisis, the roads aren't crumbling and you can pretty much guarantee your train or bus will turn up.
So what are they doing right that Britain isn't?
We can flog the Israelis a shiny new biometric panorwellcon since it looks like the next government won't be needing it.
' is it really a surprise that we're heading towards another one (which is due anyway).'
No it bloody isn't!
Can you please find a geological textbook that says the next glacial maximum is due? The best claim you can make is that in the early 1970s a *minority* of scientists studying the climate proposed that the Earth was likely to head into a period of general cooling which might end up as an ice age (we'll skip the technicality that we're actually still in an ice age).
The work began with Stephen Schneider at NASA Goddard Flight Center and got into the New York Times. Around the same time, a report by the National Academy of Sciences also suggested a 'finite possibility' that the Earth's climate would begin cooling within the next century. The stories got traction for a number of reasons:
Research had been going on into Milankovich Cycles - regular changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis on a geological timescale which appear to be *partially* related to glaciations. Running the Cycles forward showed that the Earth was heading towards a part of the cycle which would produce greater amounts of cooling.
The then state of knowledge of glaciations was very poor - we had not done any deep drilling of ice cores. There was a general assumption that the warmer interglacials, such as the current Holocene, lasted no more than 10,000 years; and that the previous interglacial had lasted less than 5,000 years. The Holocene interglacial had been going for about 10,000 years, so it was reasonable to assume the ice sheets were most likely to begin expanding again in the geological near future.
There had been a very mild cooling from the 1940s onward which was believed to have been driven by rapid industrialisation producing smoke, soot and dust and by the cultivation of previously virgin land producing even more dust.
Schneider performed a simulation contrasting the cooling effect of these aerosols against the known warming effect of increased CO2 from fossil fuels. He made a prediction of the future climate if the known trends continued into the future. His 1971 paper suggested the cooling effect was dominant and would tip the Earth towards another glacial.
Schneider quickly realised his numbers for future cooling were not realistic (he had used local concentrations of pollutants on a global scale - there were too many of them), when he dialled the aerosols back to more realistic values in his second simulation, it was clear that the warming effect was dominant.
Since then we've learned a lot. Milankovich Cycles are a good, but not total explanation of glaciations. We now know interglacials last up to about 100,000 years and we're pretty sure (again from the ice evidence) that much of the cooling in the middle part of the 20th Century was caused by an upspike in volcanic activity.
Schneider's paper came in a poorly established field without a large amount of supporting work. It was a good piece of work and he deserves credit for re-running his work with better figures. But he was not the only person researching future climates. Between 1965 and 1979, 44 scientific papers were published that predicted a warming world - and some were pointing to CO2 as the driving force, 20 thought there would be no overall change; just 7 predicted cooling.
There's a review of those papers here:
Can we now bury that myth alongside the person who suggested I should take up drinking instant coffee?
Swindon and Walt Disney World have a lot in common - I wouldn't want to be seen dead in either of them.
Where Diplodocus would have been left burned out propped up on bricks.
I really, really hope there will be some CCTV of a dinosaur sneaking out under the cover of darkness.
...Twitter it and the Guardian will run a full page probing feature with commentary by Stephen Fry.
...is it just me, or does the Psion 5 look more futuristic than that unpronounceable thing?
It's sacrilege in this day and age to have such horrifyingly bad Photoshopping going on round her feet.
'The machines will be run like Sky or TiVo boxes, under remote control from outside the home - users will have no control over them.'
Can't speak for Sky boxes, but TiVo is completely under user control. The only connection to other computers is the daily phone call and you can switch that off if you want.
If you're running on a treadmill why haven't you hooked that up to a dynamo?
The good news is that they did put the pointy-bit at the front.
I wonder how many Swedish stealth ships we could have bought for the price of this fiasco?
Well that passed me by. Am I unusual in never recognising those objects as numbers?
I'd love to know if this logo was ever considered by focus groups before being unveiled to a slack-jawed in disbelief public by the arbiters of artistic fashion - Tessa (I'm married to a crook) Jowell and Sebastian (I was almost strangled once by William Hague) Coe.
And sorry LOCOG, once you see Bill Clinton and Lisa Simpson in the logo, you can't see anything else.
Re: faulty Time Capsules
Did you have one of the original ones which has died a death - and if so, did they replace it with one of the new models?
'Cos if so, I think I might try that with my Apple Store who've been promising me a replacement Mark I TC for nearly 2 weeks now, but singularly failing to get their fingers out.
'So here's to Strasbourg. I will personally reverse by previous cynicism about the EU and celebrate them if they actually save him from extradition. I hope they do.'
You're getting your European courts mixed up.
An complaint of any violation of human rights legislation (the UK's Human Rights Act is a watered-down version of the European Convention of Human Rights) would be heard by to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The ECHR is authorised by the 47 nation Council of Europe and nothing to do with the European Union.
Judgments of the ECHR are NOT automatically binding on member states - the judges can issue an advisory ruling which member states are obliged to consider to see if their domestic law is accordance with their obligations under the Convention.
Aspects of EC Law (no it's not called EU Law) are resolved by the European Union's court which is called the European Court of Justice and sits in Luxembourg. Most of its business is interpretation of aspects of the various EU treaties. For the record, judgments of the ECJ are binding on members of the EU.
...of all those children who have been sexually molested by a dolphin?
Awesome, my TiVo series 1 is still going strong but it could really do with HD support and twin tuners.
But what a pisser that the new TiVo is going to be tied to Virgin's crappy cable service which I can't get.
Let's hope TiVo tie up with a Freeview box manufacturer and put their awesome software in a useful box.
So in ball-park numbers around 1/100,000th the mass of a grain of sugar.
It makes me wonder if that sort of quantity found on any suspect is a reasonable grounds for suspicion or could be achieved through nothing more than chance contamination. I wonder what the figure would be if you pulled someone off the street.
Come on, let's send Lester to Mars!
We have Ares I the huge manned rocket, Ares V the stupidly big rocket and now ARES the plane - this is a recipe for confusion.
I'm with Tom_ above - ARSES please.
The supposedly communistic undemocratic demagogue seems to be the only thing looking out for the individual these days.
Let's hope a serious slapping is heading towards the UK.
Preferably complete with a real slapping for Mandelson.
Helium's not the only lifting gas. Some weather balloons use ammonia although it has a lower lift. And there's no reason why hydrogen couldn't be used in this case provided the operators only recruited non-smokers.
Beware of duff eBooks even from legitimate sellers. Waterstones offer China Mieville's 'Perdido Street Station' for the Sony eBook Reader, but the book has been completely ruined by the morons who did the conversion - there are whole sections of the book in the wrong order, typos and weird characters aplenty and whole blocks of text have been repeated throughout the document.
I alerted Waterstones to the fact they're selling a version of the book the author couldn't possibly want people to see. What does Britain's leading bookseller have to say on the issue? Well let's have a look at their mission statement:
'Waterstone's mission is to be the leading Bookseller on the High Street and online providing customers the widest choice, great value and expert advice from a team passionate about Bookselling. Waterstone's aims to interest and excite its customers and continually inspire people to read and engage in books.'
So you'd expect an 'oh dear, we're really sorry, here's a corrected version of the book. Thanks for letting us know.' (You know, like they would if you found a paper book which had been incorrectly printed or was barely legible). Well to spare you the illiterate emails I got from customer services; they couldn't care less. They've got your money and they're not going to give it back without a fight.
Don't expect to get a quick refund on duff eBook purchases. Retailers assume you're a pirate from the start and you have to fight to get your money back, Amazon even considers eBook purchases to be final.
Instead, if an eBook is shite or if you can't get one thanks to DRM or stupid policies about only selling books in certain countries; write to the author and let them know their work is being ruined by their publishers or that their income is suffering.
You might not get a refund, but you'd be surprised how sympathetic writers are about customers getting what they want and what they paid for. You might even make a new friend.
'How much do you think DARPA are expecting for a lousy half-mil? That's barely enough to buy a full-sized hellfire at retail prices.'
As that great sage Opus the Penguin once said 'Physicists need Porsches too!'
...it'd better have tentacles or I want my money back.
No, that's easy.
'Tell us what to do Rupert.'
And why does word that the powers are unlikely to be used *NOT* set my mind at rest? I seem to have heard similar comforting words before - usually just before those powers are used.
'it still has to be singed off by the Monarch before it becomes enshrined in law. No Monarch would ever sign such a law and would immediately disband any government that attempted to pass such a law.'
I think you're being overly optimistic there. The sovereign has the option to withhold Royal Assent, but it is generally acknowledged this will never happen to a government-sponsored bill. The last time withholding assent was even considered was when George V wanted to veto Home Rule for Ireland. He took legal advice and was told he should not do so unless the security of the nation was threatened by the passage of the bill. That advice holds.
The sovereign appoints Lords Commissioners who state Royal Assent on their behalf. Most of the time they don't even get involved with the process, instead; convention states the sovereign takes advice of their ministers - if they say grant assent, it is granted.
All of which is good reason to ask the Americans if we can have a use of their Constitution. There are far fewer conventions and assumptions and a damn sight more transparency.
So okay the only way to do it was to switch off the sound and minimise the window.
But I *knew* it was still there wibbling and wobbling away in brightly-coloured SoCal Ballmervision - and that must count for something.
After that I think I need some quality fare - something like the complete Steven Seagal collection, played backwards with a Swedish dub.
(BTW. I think we need a special, extra-large FAIL icon for occasions like this)
There's only way to cope in places like this. When someone wishes you to 'Have a Magical Day!'* or breaks into a perfectly choreographed 'spontaneous' dance, the socially correct response is:
'Fuckity Bye!'
* I so wish I was making that up.
Just a point of order.
The average Icelander is pretty much as honest as they come, hence the country's high rating. But the dozen or so of them that ran the banks and managed to bankrupt one of the World's richest countries must be in a league of their own.
...but part of me can't help but think that anything that makes the life of this grubby little fascist (he described himself as such) a bit harder can't be bad. Irving has made a nice little income from Holocaust denial.
As for free speech, that really is a tough one. After all Irving has variously claimed that Hitler knew nothing about the Holocaust, that the Allies faked the story, that there were no gas chambers, that there was no organised extermination and so on and on... His stories have been disproven in academic journals, books, papers, even in court and yet he still rattles round the far-right circuit spilling his venom. I can't begin to imagine how much distress he causes to survivors and relatives of the dead. But yes, he should be allowed to speak - and as soon as he steps over the line, then he should be dragged in front of a court and bankrupted all over again.
One thing that's easy to do would be to stop calling him a historian. Court judgements say he has faked and exaggerated his evidence. So perhaps the next time he turns up in print or on television they can just call him 'David Irving: Nazi fantasist'?
Just two points.
The tiles on the Shuttle might well be heat-proof but they're insanely fragile. You can scratch one with your fingernail, hell they're even dented by raindrops. So there's no way they'd survive having a plane drop on them.
To answer Pyros point above. No, there's small flexible felt pads under each tile, but they're there to allow the aluminium skin of the Shuttle to expand and contract without popping the tiles.
And Nomen Publicus's question about the water dumped on the Shuttle pad during launch. That's not there for heat protection, it's a sound deadening system preventing shockwaves bouncing off the concrete apron and tearing the rocket apart.
...but wouldn't the Brits have fixed this problem long ago when they had to deal with Harriers performing vertical landings on their pocket-sized carriers?
Either that or the US Navy can fit a giant oven glove* on the landing pad.
*They can put a camouflage pattern on it if the usual daisies aren't sufficiently Oooh-rah for the Marines.
Because I don't think we're making it as an independent grown-up country.
So do we have any takers?
Large(ish) archipelago (GSOH) conveniently located off of the Western Coast of Europe would like to meet professional empire. Somewhat neglected for the last century but would make an excellent second territory. This competitively-priced country comes complete with fully-fitted drizzle, threadbare transport network and a decorative German monarchy. The landmass* is available to the highest bidder in possession of a half-baked system of government.
*offer does not include the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland negotiable.
This is BRILLIANT. If you're a shyster selling duff tech to an illiterate government.
Come the next New Labour government they'll be able to spin that there's been a public trial in one of Britain's largest cities and they've only had 2000 complaints!
Unless you're referring to a pretty little bird, 'tweeting' is NEVER an acceptable verb.
'Using nuclear weapons to dig a newer, wider, better Panama canal.
'Who'd ah thunk it?'
The answer to these sorts of question is always Edward Teller; a man always one secret volcano lair away from certifiable Bond villain.
If you put a new drive in a Mac and insert an update disk you are then prompted to install the OS disk which came with the machine in the first place.
'Location, Location, Location' normally only makes me queasy, now I can be guaranteed to throw up when the posh bint and the bloke who can't pronounce his 'r's show Tarquin, Jocasta and darling Bubblejet around their fifth home - in 3D!
Bloody hell you can buy top quality dSLRs for that much.
Try as I might, I really can't see the point of the micro four-thirds if the prices are going to be higher than better featured dSLRs. You don't save that much space in the camera bag and if that's your most pressing concern the Lumix range from Panasonic would be a better bet.
It's a bold move, but without heavy discounting I think micro four-thirds is doomed to go into the 'interesting but no way' bin alongside the Foveon sensor.
I'll stick with my Alpha 700 and Ixus combination thanks.
'For the British the smart thing to do would be to produce their own domestic drone, even if it is more expensive than the US counterpart.'
You haven't been round here long have you? The track record of Britain's defence industry to produced sub-standard gold-plated garbage is a regular feature of Lewis' articles. They'd be really enjoyable if it weren't for the fact they cost us so much money.
That can't even cover the number of Labour Party apparachiks running Manchester Council.
They really should get better outfits - they look like someone who might come round to fix your boiler.
Something in silver methinks and catsuits for any ladies who might be about to blasted into orbit (UFO purple wigs optional).
'Does anyone else expect a conspiracy theory to start now implying that he's not dead and they buried a robotic duplicate?'
I hadn't, but I think this is the perfect opportunity to start one.
And it's also a good time for him to start appearing in the Reg's unrivalled Playmobil CCTV footage - possibly replacing Optimus Prime during Transformers religious holidays.
Oh fuck, it's another Adam Sandler movie.
How can a company guarantee delivery on the day of release when it admits that it has no control over the delivery process?
Sounds like a dodgy advertising claim to me.
It's been a long time since the likes of Blackstar (remember them before they morphed into the entirely shite SendIt?) used to post stuff a couple of days ahead of release and it wasn't uncommon to get titles BEFORE release day.
'The dispute is the latest example of a party reaching halfway across the globe in an attempt to deprive the world of content that may or may not violate the laws of a single jurisdiction. If such actions succeed, they will largely gut free speech rights such as those guaranteed by the First Amendment, '
The irony of that section just keeps on giving...
Oh FFS - how thin is the bottom of the barrel after they've scraped this far?
I'd love to know what the local MP, the ever delightful Hazel Blears, has to say about this. After all it was on her watch that a lot of the moronic 'but who'll think of the children?' legislation was passed.


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I've written two relatively small programs using C. Both of them comunnicate with each other using textual data. Program A generates some problems from given input, B evaluates them and creates input for another iteration of A.
Here's a bash script that I currently use:
for i in {1..1000}
./A data > data2;
./B data2 > data;
The problem is that since what A and B do is not very time consuming, most of the time is spent (as I suppose) in starting apps up. When I measure time the script runs I get:
$ time ./bash.sh
real 0m10.304s
user 0m4.010s
sys 0m0.113s
So my main question is: is there any way to communicate data beetwen those two apps faster? I don't want to integrate them into one application, because I'm trying to build a toolset with independent, easly communicating tools (as was suggested in "The Art of Unix Programming" from which I'm learning the way to write reusable software).
PS. The data and data2 files contain sets of data needed in whole at once by those applications (so communicating by for e.g. one line of data at time is impossible).
Thanks for any suggestions.


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|Douglas E. Van Devanter, Kelly R. Moore, James S. Tomlin
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1. Technical Field
This invention relates to fish-processing equipment, and more particularly, to an apparatus for automatically cutting fish fillets into portions of preselected size.
2. Background Art
Retailers of raw or prepared fish often desire to sell fish in equally sized portions. A restaurant, for example, may prefer to serve its patrons 6L -ounce or 8-ounce portions of fish and will pay more for fish portions which are within a given tolerance of the desired weight.
When whole fish are commercially processed, each fish is typically sent to a filleting machine which cuts fish into two elongated portions or "fillets." The fillets can then be cut into smaller portions as desired. Such cutting will generally produce a number of portions of the desired size as well as "waste" portions which are too small and must be used for another purpose.
Prior to the present invention, evenly sized fillet portions were commonly obtained by estimating the portion of a fish fillet necessary to provide the desired weight and manually cutting the fillet to sever the portion. The severed portions were then weighed to determine if they were within the tolerance desired for a particular use.
This manual estimating and cutting method has several drawbacks. Specifically, it is relatively slow and labor-intensive. Additionally, it is relatively inaccurate. The present invention was developed to eliminate these drawbacks.
It is an object of this invention to provide an apparatus which will automatically and accurately cut fish fillets into portions of a preselected size.
This and other objects which will become apparent as the invention is more fully described below are obtained by providing an automatic portion-cutting machine which measures the shape of a fish fillet, calculates its corresponding volume and weight, and cuts the fillet to create portions of a predetermined size. In the preferred embodiment disclosed herein, fish fillets are advanced along a conveyor to allow these operations to take place. An optical monitoring station along the conveyor sends data relating to the shape of the fillet to a processing unit which calculates the weight of the fillet and actuates a cutting unit to cut the fillet at locations corresponding to the portion size desired.
Optical monitoring is preferably accomplished by projecting an array of inclined light beams longitudinally onto the conveyor. A single camera may then be used to monitor the location of the array and collect data on the size and shape of each fillet as it passes through the monitoring station.
In the preferred embodiment illustrated herein, the cutting unit cuts diagonally with respect to the conveyor to produce a straight cut across the fish. The depth of the cut made by the cutting unit may be set, depending upon the type of conveyor used and whether or not it is desired to completely sever the portions with the cutting unit.
FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a side elevation view of the embodiment of FIG. 1.
FIG. 2A is a schematic diagram illustrating the position of a light beam projected toward the conveyor.
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the conveyor and cutting unit of FIG. 1 illustrating several fillets advancing along the conveyor.
FIG. 4 is an isometric view illustrating the conveyor and cutting unit of the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a schematic illustration of the pneumatic and electrical elements of the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is the first portion of a flow chart illustrating the fillet portion measuring task performed by the processing unit.
FIG. 7 is the second part of the flow chart illustrated in FIG. 6.
FIG. 8 is a flow chart illustrating the cutting unit queueing task performed by the processing unit.
An automatic portion-cutting machine 10 comprising a preferred embodiment of the present invention is disclosed in FIGS. 1-4. An elongated conveyor 12 runs the length of the machine and is powered by a motor 14 mounted on the machine frame 16.
During operation, fish fillets are placed on the front end 18 of the conveyor and transported through a monitoring station 20 and past a cutting unit 22 to the back end 24 of the conveyor for further processing and/or packaging.
As the fillet passes through the monitoring station, a processing unit receives data from the monitoring station, calculates the corresponding volume and weight of the fillet, and determines the timing of the necessary cuts to divide the fillet into desired portions. When the fillet has moved along the conveyor to a location adjacent the cutting unit, the cutting unit will cut the fillet in response to commands from the processing unit.
The machine preferably includes vertical conveyor restraints 25 positioned on either side of the conveyor adjacent the monitoring station and cutting station to prevent undue vertical displacement of the conveyor during the measuring and cutting operations of the machine.
When a fish fillet is placed on the front end 18 of the conveyor 12, it passes between a pair of guides 30 which direct the fillet toward the central portion of the conveyor. Once the fillet passes through the guides, it enters the monitoring station. In the preferred embodiment illustrated herein, the monitoring station is surrounded by a shroud 32 which blocks ambient light from entering the monitoring station and interfering with the operation of the optical equipment. The shroud may be fabricated of any suitable light-blocking material. For many environments, light detection (as described below) may be satisfactory without use of the shroud or any blocking mechanism; and hence the shroud may be omitted for many applications.
As fish fillets pass through the monitoring station, a series of transverse height contours are measured. A beam generator 34 positioned above the conveyor projects a plurality of light beams 36 toward the conveyor. A camera 38 positioned above the conveyor monitors the location of the beams with and without fillets on the conveyor and transmits that information to the processing unit.
In the preferred embodiment illustrated herein and as best seen in FIG. 2, the beam generator is rearwardly offset from the conveyor such that it projects the light beams 36 toward the conveyor at angles inclined with respect to the vertical. The camera is positioned directly above the conveyor such that is is aligned vertically over the conveyor and looks vertically at the conveyor at the center of its field of view. The particular arrangement illustrated herein was selected because it works well with the size and shape of the upper portion of the machine frame 16 and the particular camera and beam generator mounted thereon. The position illustrated is not critical to the operation of the invention. In fact, the beam generator and camera can be mounted in almost any position and orientation above the conveyor, provided that each is directed toward the conveyor at a different angle from the other. The position of the camera and beam generator could be reversed, for example, or the camera and beam generator could be placed on opposite sides of the conveyor such that each was inclined with respect to the vertical.
The beam generator and camera combine to produce data which can be used to calculate an estimate of the incremental volume and corresponding weight of each fillet. When there is no fillet on the conveyor, the light beams will contact the conveyor, forming a series of illuminated lines 40, as illustrated in FIG. 1. The camera will detect the initial location of the beams on the conveyor and transmit this information to the processing unit.
The camera employed in the preferred embodiment is a digital camera which scans a transverse line, designated A--A in FIG. 3, to determine the amount of light present at a plurality of points along line A--A. The camera has 256 light-sensitive pixels which can take individual readings across line A--A and assign a numerical value corresponding to the brightness of light, or "gray level," detected. These gray level values are fed into the processing unit, which will scan the values for peaks which correspond to the transverse location of the light beams along line A--A.
When an object on the conveyor passes under the light beams across line A--A, the beams will terminate on the object rather than the conveyor and the resulting increased height of the beam will cause the light beam to shift transversely along line A--A. The peaks detected by the digital camera will also shift and be detected by different pixels. Because the light beams are inclined with respect to the camera angle, the change in height represented by the transverse shift can be calculated using geometry. As illustrated in FIG. 2A, a beam L, which was originally detected at point X along line A--A (with no fillet present), will be detected at point Y along line A--A when a fillet 214 is present. By knowing the inclination of the beam L, it is possible to calculate the height H of the fillet which corresponds to the transverse deflection from point X to point Y.
In the preferred embodiment, the height is determined using the linear approximation to estimate the geometric relationship discussed above and illustrated in FIG. 2A. Each beam is assigned a scale factor which is used to approximate the fillet height corresponding to a measured amount of transverse deflection for that beam. Because the beams are effectively generated from a point source 42 and dispersed across a substantially horizontal conveyor, the beams will be inclined at various angles, as can best be seen with respect to the two outermost beams 36a, 36b which are illustrated in FIG. 2. Similarly, the camera detection angles will increase with respect to the vertical at the outer ends of the conveyor. It is thus preferred that a scale factor be assigned to each individual beam.
Beam scale factors are calibrated by passing an object having a constant and known height through the monitoring station. The transverse deflection of each beam corresponding to the object height is stored in the processing unit and used as a basis for linear approximations of the fillet height for a given transverse deflection. For example, if the light intensity peak for a given beam is detected at the 100th pixel for a vacant conveyor and the 90th pixel for a calibrating object with a height of 20 millimeters, the height represented by each pixel shifted would be 2 millimeters. Thus, after calibration, if the light intensity peak for the same beam is detected by the 96th pixel when a fillet is passing under the camera, the height of the fillet for that beam will be approximated to be 8 millimeters.
In the preferred embodiment, thirteen light beams 8 inches in length are projected toward the conveyor. By approximating the height of the fillet at each beam location, a height contour is generated. Such height contours are generated periodically in response to encoder pulses generated at intervals corresponding to a set amount of conveyor movement. In the preferred embodiment illustrated herein, for example, the generation of encoder pulses is linked to the conveyor motor such that a pulse is generated for every 1/10 inch of conveyor movement.
Once a height contour is generated by the processing unit, the area under the height contour is estimated using Simpson's Rule. For the purpose of this Simpson's Rule approximation, the height values of the height contours are assumed to be at the equivalent beam spacings detected for a vacant conveyor.
The area approximation is multiplied by the encoder pulse length (1/10 inch in the preferred embodiment) to produce an incremental volume, referred to herein as a "slice" volume. The slice volume is then multiplied by the fish density to yield an estimate of the weight of a one-encoder-pulse-length slice of the fillet.
As each fillet passes through the monitoring station, the weight of adjoining slices is tabulated until the total tabulated weight is equal to the preselected portion size. When the tabulation indicates that an entire portion has been measured, the processing unit takes the corresponding encoder pulse and adds to it the number of encoder pulses necessary for the last measured slice to pass by the cutting unit. This encoder pulse value is then used to cue the cutting unit to cut the fillet at a location corresponding to that slice to create the desired portion.
The density value for a given type of fish is preferably determined experimentally by the automatic portion-cutting machine. In the preferred embodiment, the processing unit may be set into a special mode to calculate the density. A fish fillet is first accurately weighed by the machine operator who then enters the weight measurement into the processing unit. The fillet is then sent through the monitoring station with the processing unit set in density calculation mode. In this mode, the processing unit will tabulate the slice volumes for the entire fillet and divide the total volume by the actual weight to determine the density value. The density value may then be used to measure portions, as described above. In a preferred embodiment, a measured fillet may be run through the monitoring station a plurality of times to calculate the density as many times as desired. Each subsequent calculation can be recorded by the machine operator and averaged after discarding any obviously bad data. The average value can then be entered into the processing unit by the operator, thereby increasing the accuracy of the density calculation.
The processing unit and camera used in the preferred embodiment illustrated herein are sold by Opcon Company of Everett, Washington as the Opcon IS-10 system. In the preferred embodiment, the system is programmed in FORTH to perform the estimating and calculating functions described herein. FIGS. 6-8 are flow charts indicating the logic used in the preferred embodiment.
FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate the logic used in the fillet portion measurement task. The number of beams detected in the camera's field of view (FOV) is first counted (140). A check is then made to see if all beams are being detected by determining whether an odd or even number of beams have been detected (142). In the preferred embodiment, thirteen beams are employed. Consequently, if an even number of beams are detected, there is some error with the system, and an "error flag" (144) is preferably sent to the display panel 42. If an odd number of beams are detected, the program continues by finding the position of the beams when there is nothing on the conveyor (146). The beam scale factors may then be calibrated using an object having a standard height, as described in detail earlier (148).
Once the beam scale factors have been calibrated, the machine is ready to measure fillets. When an encoder pulse is received, the beam deviations in beam locations are measured (150). The total number of deviations is checked against the preset minimum (152) to determine whether the deviations are the result of a fillet actually being present on the conveyor or merely the result of "noise" caused by conveyor vibration or the like. It has been found that beam deviations for three beams or more will typically represent the presence of an actual fillet rather than noise.
If more beam deviations occur than the preset minimum, the beam deviations are multiplied by the scale factors to produce a height contour (154). As indicated in FIG. 7, the values of the height contour are used to calculate the area under the contour curve using Simpson's Rule (156). The area is then multiplied by the density and the encoder pulse length to determine the weight of the slice passing through the field of view (158). This slice value is then compared against another present minimum (160). If the slice weight is less than this minimum, it indicates that no fillet is present; and the total fillet weight value is reset to zero (162).
The fillet mass is continually tabulated and compared to the preset portion size (164). If the preset portion size is not reached (166), the program will return to calculate the value of the next slice using the same algorithm (168, 150). If the portion size is obtained, the program will first cue the cutting unit for actuation at the appropriate time (170) and weight (172), and then reset the fillet and start through the algorithm again.
FIG. 8 illustrates the operation of the cutting unit actuation task. As the cueing locations for the cutting unit are determined by the portioning task, they are stored in the processing unit as variable X (174). The cueing task logic compares this value to the current encoder location (176). If the next cued encoder pulse location has not been reached, the system will wait for the next encoder pulse (177) and rerun the comparison of the new encoder pulse value with the next cued value (174). This process will continus until the encoder value is equal to the next cued value. When this occurs, the cutting unit actuation will be de-cued (178) to actuate the cutting unit to cut the portion (180). When the cutting unit is actuated, a signal is sent to a pilot valve 116 to supply air pressure to activate the cutting unit as described in detail below. The logic is programmed with a built-in time delay to leave the cutting unit operating for a predetermined amount of time to enable the cutting blade to cross over the conveyor and back (182). After a preset number of encoder pulses have been detected, the cutting unit is disengaged (184) and the logic begins checking for the next cued actuation location.
The automatic portion-cutting machine includes a display and control panel 42, illustrated in FIG. 1. The panel allows the machine operator to input information into the processing unit, such as the desired portion size or the fillet weight when calculating the fish density. Additionally, the operator can check the value of certain counters within the processing unit which tabulate various values. In the preferred embodiment, for example, the total number of portions cut, the total weight of the portions cut, the total number of scrap or �waste" portions processed so far, and the total weight of such scrap portions are tabulated and stored in the processing unit and may be called onto the display screen 44 by the operator.
In the preferred embodiment illustrated herein, the cutting unit 22 is pneumatically operated. The cutting unit comprises a movable blade assembly 100 which includes a cutting blade 102 and a pneumatic motor 104. The blade assembly is rollably mounted on a pair of elevated crossbars 106 which extend above and transversely across the conveyor 12. The crossbars are mounted to the machine frame through means of a pair of elevating cylinders 108, 110 on either side of the conveyor. The elevating cylinders enable the elevation of the crossbars to be raised and lowered as the elevating cylinders are pressurized and de-pressurized, respectively.
The position of the blade assembly along the crossbars is controlled by the blade cylinder 112. When activated, the blade cylinder will propel the blade assembly across the conveyor to cut the fillet 114. The blade cylinder is actuated by the processing unit, which signals a pilot valve 116 to pressurize the blade cylinder for the length of time necessary for the blade assembly to travel across the conveyor. The pilot valve is deactivated to pressurize the back side of the blade cylinder and return the blade assembly to its original position.
When the blade assembly reverses its direction of travel and begins its return trip across the conveyor, the crossbars are elevated by the elevating cylinders to prevent the cutting blade from contacting the fillet and making unwanted cuts. A microswitch 118, with an extending detection rod 120, is mounted on a crossbar, as shown in FIG. 4, the detect when the blade assembly has completed its first pass across the conveyor. The microswitch communicates with the power supply box 122, which signals the pilot valve 124 to send pneumatic pressure to the elevating cylinders 108, 110 and raise the crossbar and blade assembly.
As best seen in FIG. 3, the crossbars 106 are inclined at an angle A with respect to the conveyor when looking in plan view. The inclination compensates for the travel of the fish fillets 114 when they are being cut, and enables the blade assembly to make cuts 126 in the fillet which are substantially perpendicular with respect to the longitudinal axis B of the conveyor.
To ensure that the blade will travel through the fish filets in a straight travel path, the blade assembly is mounted on the crossbars 106 at an angle C offset from the crossbars, as seen in Figure C. This offset enables the cutting blade 102 to make a clean pass through the fish fillets.
Because it may be desirable to vary the speed of the conveyor, and hence the amount of fillet travel which must be compensated for, it is preferred that the cutting unit be adjustable to various angles with respect to the conveyor. In the preferred embodiment illustrated herein, this is accomplished by means of an arcuate mounting member 128 which extends outwardly from the machine frame 16 adjacent the blade cylinder, as seen in FIGS. 3 and 4. The side of the cutting unit mounted on the arcuate mounting member can be adjusted by sliding a correspondingly shaped support plate 130 into the position desired.
A schematic diagram of the electronic and pneumatic components used in the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in FIG. 5. The pneumatic elements communicate with a central air supply 182 to provide pressurized air as necessary. Air line 187 and regulator 188 preferably supply air from the air supply at about 20 psi to the blade motor 104. A branching line 189 passes through regulators 190 and into a pilot valve 116 which communicates with the blade cylinder 112 through a first pressure line 191 to activate the blade cylinder to propel the cutting blade assembly 100 across the conveyor. A second air line 192 communicates with the blade cylinder to allow pressurization of the back side of the cylinder to return the blade assembly to its original position. An electrical signal line 193 runs between the processing unit 26 and the pilot valve 116 to activate the pilot valve to send pressurized air through line 191 and line 192 as necessary for a complete back and forth cycle of the cutting blade assembly.
The height of the crossbars 106 (see FIG. 4) is controlled by elevating cylinders 108, 110. Actuation of the elevating cylinders is controlled by a pilot valve 124 which receives pressurized air from line 193, which communicates with line 189. Signal line 194 links the pilot valve 124 to the power supply box 122 to transmit input from the microswitch 118. The electronics components are interconnected in the manner shown in FIG. 5. The conveyor motor 14 is linked to the processing unit 26 by signal wire 195 to enable the encoder pulses to be generated in response to rotation of the motor and transmitted to the processing unit. The beam generator 34 and camera each communicate with the processing unit via respective signal lines 196, 197.
Although the invention has been described herein with respect to a particular embodiment, it is not intended that the invention be limited to this embodiment. Rather, it is intended that the invention encompass all equivalent embodiments.
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Owner name: SEAFREEZE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, 206 SOUTHWEST MICHI
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Effective date: 19840801
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A Liquid-Crystal on Silicon Infrared Scene Projector
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AbstractThis proposal outlines the research and development of a novel infrared scene projection system based on Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) technology. This technology combines the light modulating capabilities of liquid crystal with the compact, active electronics of VLSI circuitry. The result is a mass-producible, inexpensive, compact, low-power, high frame rate device. This proposal addresses the limitations of current visible LCoS-SLM technology in meeting the needs of an IR scene projector, and proposes an approach for the development of a multi-purpose VLSI backplane that is suitable for use in both the visible and IR. When combined with IR appropriate materials, the result is an inexpensive device that is reconfigurable.
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We are just back from an October week long break in the Nova apartments. Can't really fault them. Great value for money apartments and ideal for families. Even though it was October there was still good entertainment for kids and our 4 year old son loved the mini club, there were activities for him at midday and 3pm, and then the mini disco at 9pm. The entertainers - Carlos and Margareet - were brilliant, really good with all of the guests. All of the staff in the Nova were very friendly and the service was good. Perhaps the apartments are a little dated, but they are clean and comfortable. The beach is a 2 minute walk from the bottom gate and there are plenty of good bars and restaurants within easy walking distance.
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Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
Length, sense of achievement, it's really immersive
Feels like it has been rushed onto the 3DS, lacks polish
What do you think of when you think of the new 3DS? In your face 3D visuals? The kind of bright, colourful graphics you might expect from the Wii? Slick 3D updates of established favourites, with neat Wi-Fi features bundled in? Yep. Us too.
So why is it that the 3DS game that is getting the most time at this end doesn't conform to any of the above? Instead, it's a top-down, turn-based strategy game, loosely tied into one of Ubisoft's Tom Clancy franchises. It's not an update or a remake, the graphics are a bit grey, brown and grimy, and the 3D effects are relatively restrained. There's no StreetPass or Wi-Fi gaming features to be found. If you're looking for a game to show off the features of your new 3DS, Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars really isn't it.
It is, however, a horribly compulsive little game. For once, Ubisoft hasn't even tried to push a home console action game onto a portable format, then tried to kludge things so that the controls and graphics just about work. Instead, we get a stripped-back, squad-tactic piece, with six members of an elite Ghost Recon team on a mission in Kazakhstan, facing insurgents mobilised by a Putin-esque Russian autocrat. Forget real-time strategy. Here, everything is turn-based. You issue orders to each squad member, one-by-one, moving them a few squares on a grid overlaid on the scenery, then telling them who to shoot at. Once all your guys have moved, the enemy has their turn, any third-parties have their turn, and it's your go once again. It's a curiously old-fashioned affair.
Old-fashioned, but effective. The mechanics are simple at first, with some clever use of onscreen displays to help you find cover, establish targets and weigh-up risks. As the missions go on, they grow less linear, and the game starts throwing in new weapon types and new troop types with new abilities, moving from the basic commando, sniper and medic roles to cover heavy weapons, stealth units and engineers. Characters and equipment can be upgraded, and drones can be called into action (or used against you). The maps get larger, multiple objectives come into play and - before long - you've got your hands full. On anything above the easiest difficulty level, it's satisfyingly tough, making you look after the men and women in your command, keeping them in cover and healing them when they get hurt. After an hour or two, each foe taken down feels like a little victory, and you'll find yourself utterly absorbed.
Nor is Shadow Wars bereft of charm. Whereas the grown-up Ghost Recon games stick very close to the po-faced Tom Clancy style, Shadow Wars is more Action Man or GI Joe, with cheerfully clichéd characters swapping banter at every opportunity, and even a few gags thrown in along the way. It's also a meaty game, with a huge single-player campaign, a good selection of unlockable skirmish maps you can play against the AI, and a nifty little multiplayer mode you can play with just one 3DS. If we were taking one 3DS game on holiday in the next few weeks, this would be it.
However, keen as we are to start shouting "Here it is, the little gem that makes the 3DS worth having", we have to say that Shadow Wars has one big cloud hanging over it. Surprisingly, it's not the game's stereoscopic 3D, which is actually used pretty well. The maps are chock-full of canyons, chasms and fissures to give the view a sense of depth, and we like the way Shadow Wars overlays character pictures and information windows at the front of the picture; it means nothing to gameplay, but it is kind-of cool. The 3D also works well when, at suitably dramatic moments, the camera suddenly pans down to give a different, third-person view of the scene.
Nope. The problem is that this looks and feels like a DS game that has been tarted up for the 3DS at relatively short notice. Characters, scenery, and buildings don't show any signs of the sophistication and detail that we know the 3DS is capable of, and lavish surface and lighting effects are MIA. There's really no reason why this game couldn't have been made to work on the original DS, or on the PSP or iPhone, now we mention it.
And while we're complaining, some kind of checkpointing wouldn't go amiss. You can save mid-mission from the Options screen, but the game doesn't make this clear early on, and it's something you tend to forget until one team member dies, at which point the mission fails and you're back to square one.
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars has a serious problem with presentation - this doesn't look like a showcase game for a brand new handheld console. If you can see past the lack of eye candy, however, then you'll find well-designed, easy to pick-up strategy game that will keep you busy for a surprisingly long time. Spruce up the sequel, Ubichaps, and you might have a winner on your hands.
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For a full list of available lettings please see our current premises to let (PDF, 166KB).
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Chester area office
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Ellesmere Port and Neston area office
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- Units 2 and 3 Craftworkshops - Combined doc (PDF, 296KB)
- Units 30 and 36 Westminster Industrial Park - Combined doc (PDF, 336KB)
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- Dalby Court, Gadbrook Business Centre, Northwich (PDF, 351KB)
- Meridian House, Winsford Industrial Estate (PDF, 385KB)
- Richmond House (PDF, 371KB)
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- 7 and 8 Duttons Business Centre, Northwich (PDF, 317KB)
- 93 Brunner Court, Northwich (PDF, 338KB)
- 95a - 97a Brunner Court, Northwich (PDF, 350KB)
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- Unit 10, Hartford Business Centre (PDF, 398KB)
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- Unit 5, Woodford Court, Winsford (PDF, 427KB)
- Unit 6, Woodford Court, Winsford (PDF, 427KB)
- Unit 7, Woodord Court, Winsford (PDF, 427KB)
- Unit 9 Woodford Court, Winsford (PDF, 432KB)
- Verdin Exchange, Winsford (PDF, 529KB)
Shop units to let - The Forum shopping centre, Chester
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Agricultural holdings and land
Fishing rights on Council-owned stretches of the River Dee, Chester.
Mixed Woodland, Whitegate
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Upper level high pressure as exerted hotter weather into California as the "yo-yo low" from this past weekend meanders back to the west across northern Mexico. Our temperatures are forecast to heat up for the next several days to the mid 90s. A few spots in the south valley could get close to 100° for Saturday. This unseasonably hot weather has prompted the issuance of Heat Advisories in the Los Angeles area for the next few days. South valley highs will remain in the mid 90s all the way through next Tuesday.
The low pressure system will maneuver to a position southwest of Baja by this weekend. It is pushing a bit farther west than earlier estimates and will result in a lower probability of rainfall for southern California and Kern County. But there is still plenty of uncertainty with this feature. The American model is bringing the system through on Thursday with a chance for showers. So I've kept a 10% probability for Wednesday and Thursday in the forecast. Temperatures will drop a bit into the 80s for highs by Thursday.
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From Local Bus Station to Lub Sbuy Guest House
Only 2 minutes walking distance from bus station to Lub Sbuy Guest House. When you come out off bus station go to main street and turn left about 1 minute you will see our Guest House on the left side.
From airport you can take a airport bus to phuket town and stop at local bus station or take a taxi or minibus direct to Guest House


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I've created a slideshow of my photos from my January 2014 trip to Myanmar (Burma), and have uploaded it to YouTube. These are photos of people in the more well known regions of Myanmar but also of people in the rarely-visited remote regions. I think you will enjoy these!
The original individual photos can be seen at http://www.silentnomad.com/images/Photos/Myanmar/